Now more than ever, health practitioners are concentrating on the cross-reaction between food and medicine. There are specific types of food that can interfere with current medications. The Harvard Health Letter came out with a list of how the two affect each other. Now people are paying closer attention to their diets based on certain foods that can cause a drug interaction, which can either make medications stronger or weaker, or have an entirely different effect.
Every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. -- Children's book author Wendelin Van Draanen (1965- )
The mainstream publishing industry has popularized the stereotype that “self-published” books are inferior to “traditional” ones because the author does not receive an advance and the services provided are less professional. The reality is that the Big Four publishers attained their enormous market share by, at least initially, relying on author subsidies. When advances were paid, they were typically loans that had to be repaid if a book failed to sell a volume of books that would cover the advance.
Startups are all the rage in the tech business press. Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley write endless columns about the Next Big Thing. Entrepreneurs are celebrated, written about, and there’s both an HBO and an Amazon series about them. VCs (Venture Capitalists) look for the next Unicorn. What’s that? It’s a startup they invest in early, raise a few million up to $10 or $20, maybe even $30 million, that will then grow to Billion Dollar value. Yes, that was Billion with a B. Maybe to get there, in VC money-speak, it will take a few more rounds, an A, BC, even a D round, raising many millions, tens of millions, to get there. Usually this requires stellar success, revenues and growth.
James Fernie is one of those people who can say he has achieved what he set out to do. He would, however, disagree, as there are many more future plans in the making. His company Uthando (meaning love in Xhosa) has grown beyond expectations, proving that his vision for a need of such company was founded.
